Very occasionally the 1225C server appears in Workgroup, but normally browsing through XBMC's SMB option gives the message Error 2: Share Not Available and using Add Network Location with the IP + file address gives the message Connection timed out.

** As far as this "force user = XBian" thing I don't know what to tell you since I don't even know if there is an XBian user on your Mint system. All of your shares allow guest access and all of them are in what appears to be your home directory:

"Still don't know if this is a "can't see the host" problem or a permissions issue" - I never have permission to access the server. On a few occasions, I have seen the hostname 'damian-1225C' via XBMC's SMB browser - but never the shared folders and I always meet a permissions problem.

I've been through the checklist. The only sticking point was running 5b on the Pi, but I have no firewall just now in this network.

I have no output for smbtree.

"As far as this "force user = XBian" thing I don't know what to tell you since I don't even know if there is an XBian user on your Mint system." - Xbian is the hostname of the Raspberry Pi. It doesn't appear in my Windows Network folder. Since I set an SMB password following advice in the XBMC forum, neither does the 1225C itselfOutput of ls -dl /home/damian/Videos:

No output from smbtree is usually because smbd or nmbd isn't running or a firewall is in the way all of which is covered in the HowTo.

XBian does not have write access to the share. It's not clear if you want it to but if you do your share is not configured to allow it. And if it were the Linux permissions on the target folder won't allow it either. To fix that:

There is no such thing as smb://192.168.1.43/home/damian/Videos. The "smb://" protocol know nothing of the internal path to the share. The Samba server takes care of that. You should be access the share with a:

Well, there is nothing more you can do on the Samba part of Mint since everything seems to be working. You can access the Samba share from Mint and smbtree does not display errors.

There's an outside chance that this is all a Linux permissions problem in that the entire path does not allow guest access to traverse all folders but I doubt it. If that is an issue instead of changing permissions you could modify one of your shares :

It's also possible that you encrypted your home directory and I'm not sure how you get out of that one. Perhaps the "force user = damian" would fix that as well. Or change the folder you share to something outside of your home directory.

It is also possible that this is not a Samba or a Linux problem but a networking problem - all of the machines are not in the same subnet kind of thing. That I don't have much experience in.

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